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Art the Clown, also known as The Miles County Clown, is the main antagonist of the Terrifier franchise. He is a sadistic supernatural killer clown who is known for killing anyone he encounters in Miles County, New York. He is the archnemesis of Sienna Shaw.

Biography[]

Before the events[]

Art's past is currently unknown, although it was hinted that he killed a young girl many years before the start of the series. He had also presumably kidnapped kids before, according to one of the demolition workers. Art becomes very offended when reffered to as a mime, for example by Ally (who subsequently had the worst and most torturous death in terrifer 2). This has led some to believe art is selectively mute, not via his own volition, possibly due to a traumatic event involving his mother, as he attacks women more often than men, and started sucking his thumb when the crazy cat lady babied him in Teriffier. Art is ultimately an evil villain, with no redeeming qualities, who operated as a regular serial killer before being resurrected by a demon at the end of Terrifier.

Terrifier[]

On Halloween night of 2017, Art spots two friends, Tara and Dawn, drunkenly leave a party & follows them to a pizzeria. There, he stares menacingly at the two and makes advances at Tara, which unnerve her before Art gets kicked out by the restaurant owner for smearing feces over the bathroom walls. The girls leave the pizzeria to discover that one of Dawn's car tires has been slashed. Meanwhile, Art returns to the pizzeria, killing and mutilating two workers with a cleaver.

Art eventually gets into Dawn's car and attacks her before kidnapping her; he would also chase down Tara before eventually subduing her with a sedative.

Tara awakens, bound to a chair inside a derelict warehouse to see Art has Dawn suspended upside-down. Taking a hacksaw, Art forces Tara to watch as he saws Dawn in half vertically. After posing for several pictures with Dawn's camera in front of her corpse, Art hunts down Tara but she strikes him with a 2x4; after recovering, Art strikes Tara and goes to get some bullets before he shoots her in the head repeatedly. A nearby homeless woman witnesses this and seeks out help, only to be dismissed. Art attacks a pest controller named Mike working nearby with a hammer, knocking him unconscious. The homeless woman soon discovers Art cradling her doll, and in a plea for the return of her "child", attempts to show motherly compassion to Art by cradling him. This however fails as Art scalps and tears off the woman's breasts.

Soon, Tara's sister Vicky arrives to take Tara and Dawn home and is discovered by Art. Art chases and corners her into a locker but turns his attention to Mike's co-worker Will and decapitates him. Art chases down Vicky again, who briefly escapes him but stops upon finding her sister's corpse. Art catches up to her and attacks her with a makeshift cat o' nine tails, but a recovered Mike knocks Art unconscious. The two flee and call 9-1-1, but Art recovers and kills Mike by stomping his head. Vicky retreats into a garage, but Art rams through the door and hits her with a pickup truck, incapacitating her. As she lies unconscious, Art begins to mutilate and eat her face. The police finally arrive, but Art shoots himself inside his mouth before he can be apprehended.

After the police discover Vicky is still alive, Art's body and those of his slain victims are taken to a morgue, where the medical examiner unzips Art's body bag. Art suddenly reanimates and attacks him.

Terrifier 2[]

Immediately after his mysterious revival, Art brutally murders the coroner inspecting his body and steals some of his equipment to make more deadly weapons. Whilst washing his clothes in a nearby laundry, he meets a little girl in a clown attire similar to his, who is implied to be responsible for his resurrection. A customer discovers the two of them interacting and Art murders him with the end of a broken mop handle before dressing himself back up and leaving the laundry.

A year later, Art's victim from the first movie Victoria is released from hospital care and goes to an interview in Monica Brown's show, which Art and the Little Pale Girl watch through their miniature television. When Victoria insists that Art could not be still alive after she and two cops had witnessed him killing himself, the psychopathic clown destroys the TV in a fit of rage. As his next victims, Art stalks the siblings Sienna and Jonathan Shaw, whose father died from a brain tumor, with Art framing Jonathan for bringing a dead opossum to school, which gets him suspended, and confronting Sienna to a costume shop before murdering the shop's owner through decapitation. Jonathan discovers his father's sketchbook, where he has multiple drawings of Art, his previous victims and Sienna in a Valkyrie-angel warrior costume, which she decided to create for Halloween night. However, neither Sienna nor the siblings' mother Barbara would believe him and Barbara ultimately hit Jonathan for calling her a "bitch," prompting him to flee from home. Meanwhile, Art tries to ask Sienna's best friend Allie for candy but she rejects his demands and comes to notice Art's tools in his bag, leaving her anxious.

Later that night, Art breaks into Allie's home and attacks her mercilessly, ripping her hair off her head, scalping her back, removing her left arm, tearing her right hand in half and slashing her numerous times with a blade. He returns and sadistically pours salt and bleach into her wounds before removing part of her face that reveals her skull. Allie's mother eventually returns home and is horrified upon seeing Art with her daughter's heavily mutilated and unrecognizable body but Art quickly kills her and uses her severed head as a bowl to give candy to children. After Sienna departs for Halloween night with her other best friend Brooke, Barbara finds her car vandalized with eggs, shaving cream and toilet paper, leading her to believe Jonathan had vandalized it in revenge for tearing his father's sketchbook and not believing him. As an enraged Barbara cleans the car, she finds Art inside and he blows her head apart with a sawn-off shotgun. After the Little Pale Girl lures Jonathan back home, Art mocks him by shoving mashed potatoes into the destroyed mouth of his mother's corpse before injecting him with a serum to render him unconscious. Art and the Little Pale Girl then take Jonathan to the abandoned Terrifier horror house to lure Sienna out and kill her, which they successfully do when the Little Pale Girl perfectly mimics Jonathan's voice on the phone.

After Art murders Brooke and her boyfriend Jeff, a cat-and-mouse chase occurs in the Terrifier house and Art severely wounds both siblings. Despite Sienna landing numerous blows to Art's head that would have been fatal for an ordinary human, the apparently immortal clown survives all wounds and manages to kill Sienna by stabbing her with her father's sword before attempting to eat Jonathan alive. Fortunately, the sword reveals its magical abilities and revives Sienna, who proceeds to slash at Art mercilessly multiple times with her sword to keep him away from Jonathan. Upon having been brought to his knees, Art initially seems enraged that his plan to kill Sienna failed but then smirks at her as if a sign of respect, having finally found someone that could stand up to him in strength and even unnatural capabilities. Confident that he would return to life once again, he allows her to decapitate him, which she does in retribution for him attempting to murder her little brother and killing her mother and best friends. Sienna and Jonathan witness the Little Pale Girl picking up Art's severed head and she departs with it in her hands, electing not to further harm the Shaw siblings.

As the celebrations of Halloween are coming to an end, Victoria, who was placed in a psychiatric institution for mauling Monica Brown with her bare hands following the aforementioned interview, gives birth to Art's decapitated yet reanimated head and laughs manically as a nurse screams at the horrific sight.

Terrifier 3[]

Shortly after Victoria gives birth to Art's head, a police officer discovers Art's headless body and calls for backup. Out of nowhere, Art's body stands up and chokes the police officer to death. Art's body then makes his way to psychiatric institution and kills Burke before retrieving his decapitated head. Art and his new possessed accomplice Victoria ride a train and stumble across a man cosplaying as Art. Art and Victoria kill him, steal his clothes and horn, and move in to an abandoned building where they rest for 5 years.

In 2023, two demolition workers explore the building and get brutally murdered by Art and Victoria. Later, Art stumbles across 3 people in a bar. One of them is wearing a Santa Claus costume. Art, excited, runs inside and tosses an id that belongs to a man named Maurice Jackson to the bartender. Art then sits on the man in the Santa Claus costume and pees his pants. In a fight-or-flight response, the man pushes Art away and tries to attack Art, but the bartender stops him from doing so. Art then pulls out a gun out of his plastic bag and kills everyone except for the man in a Santa Claus costume. Art spares him for a while, steals his Santa costume, and ties him up to a chair. The man then introduces himself as Charles. Upon finding out his true identity, Art freezes his limbs using liquid nitrogen before smashing them into pieces. Art then freezes the man's face and smashes it into pieces as well.

Death[]

Terrifier[]

After committing the 'Miles County Massacre', Art shoots himself in the mouth with his pistol before the police can apprehend him. However, he would be resurrected.

Terrifier 2[]

After killing Sienna and just as he was devouring Jonathan's ankles, Art is attacked by Sienna who was brought back to life. Art is decapitated after Sienna strikes him with her sword numerous times in the neck but is resurrected another time after Vicky gives birth to his still alive head.

Murders committed by Art the Clown[]

Terrifier[]

  1. Steve - Decapitated by Art off-screen and head made into a jack-o-lantern. Head seen.
  2. Ramone - Fingers cut off, stabbed several times in the face by Art.
  3. Dawn Emerson - Cut vertically in half by Art with a hacksaw.
  4. Tara Heyes - Shot at least 7 times in the head by Art.
  5. The Cat Lady - Breasts and scalp ripped off by Art off-screen, body seen.
  6. Will - Stabbed in the head and then decapitated by Art with a knife.
  7. Mike - Hit twice with a barrel and skull crushed by Art with his shoe.

Terrifier 2[]

  1. Seth Bolton (Coroner) - Strangled, throat slashed and repeatedly bashed in the skull by Art with a medical hammer, who then ripped out his eye and bashed his face in, before tearing his head in half and removing his brain.
  2. Unnamed Man - Impaled through the top of the head by Art with the broken end of a mop off-screen, body seen.
  3. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  4. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  5. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  6. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  7. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  8. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  9. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  10. Unnamed Man - Shot repeatedly in the face by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  11. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  12. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  13. Unnamed Person - Shot to death by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  14. Unnamed Man - Shot in the head by Art with a tommy gun. Dream
  15. Unnamed Person - Burned to death by Art with a flamethrower. Dream
  16. Unnamed Person - Burned to death by Art with a flamethrower. Dream
  17. Banjo Woman - Burned to death by Art with a flamethrower. Dream
  18. Unnamed Woman - Hand sliced off by Art. Dream
  19. Possum - Disemboweled by Art off-screen, body seen.
  20. Ricky - Stabbed in the eye with a broken beer bottle that was earlier smashed over his head, then stabbed in the temple and three times in the neck until he was decapitated by Art with a meat cleaver.
  21. Allie - Maximum brutality: disfigurement, sliced and diced, etc.
  22. Allie's Mother - Decapitated off-screen, head used as a candy bowl.
  23. Barbara Shaw - Head blown off by Art with a sawed-off shotgun.
  24. Jeff - Cock & balls stabbed and ripped off
  25. Brooke - Face melted with fluoroantimonic acid and stabbed three times in the back. Leg partially severed and stabbed seven times in the chest by Art with the Dingbat. Chest ripped open and heart removed.
  26. Sienna Shaw - Slashed several times with a chain, slammed into bathroom stall and mirror, kicked twice, stabbed in the stomach by Art with Sienna's father's sword. Revived.
    • Total - 16 (29 including dream kills)

Terrifier 3[]

  1. Timmy Thomas - Mutilated with an axe by Art the Clown off-screen, body shown.
  2. Mark Thomas - Repeatedly stabbed in neck with an axe by Art the Clown.
  3. Jennifer Thomas - Stabbed in back and stomach, arm chopped off and stabbed in head with an axe by Art the Clown.
  4. Officer Evans - Strangled by Art the Clown.
  5. Nurse - Mauled off screen by Art the Clown.
  6. Adam Burke - Jaw and face ripped off by Victoria Heyes and Art the Clown. Shared kill.
  7. Unnamed Man - Killed by Art the Clown off-screen, clothes shown.
  8. Dennis - Stabbed in hand with a large nail, fingers eaten, scalp cut in half with a box cutter and head's skin ripped in half by Art the Clown.
  9. Rat - Froze to death with nitrogen and repeatedly smashed against a table by Art the Clown.
  10. Smokey - Shot by Art the Clown with a gun.
  11. Eddie - Shot by Art the Clown with a gun.
  12. Charles Johnson/Santa Claus - Limbs frozen with nitrogen and repeatedly bashed in, face frozen with nitrogen and bashed to death with a hammer by Art the Clown.
  13. Corey - Killed in a explosion made with an explosive present by Art the Clown.
  14. Sarah's mother - Head blown apart in an explosion caused by Art the Clown with an explosive present.
  15. Unnamed Person - Burned to death in an explosion made with an explosive present by Art the Clown.
  16. Unnamed Person - Burned to death in an explosion made with an explosive present by Art the Clown.
  17. Unnamed Person - Burned to death in an explosion made with an explosive present by Art the Clown.
  18. Mia Carpenter - Breasts, hip, and arms sliced off, face cut open and later sawed in half through the waist with a chainsaw by Art the Clown.
  19. Cole Deveraux - Hand and fingers sliced off, leg partially severed and ripped off, butt sliced off and penetrated with a chainsaw, arm sawed off, head sliced in half and later cut vertically in half through the groin by Art the Clown.
  20. Jonathan Shaw - Killed by Art the Clown off-screen, skull shown.
  21. Greg - Decapitated off-screen by Art the Clown, body shown.
  22. Jessica Shaw - Plastic tube shoved in throat with a hammer, rats put inside and throat slit with a kitchen knife by Art the Clown and Victoria Heyes. Shared kill.
  23. Rat - Stomped until being crushed by Art the Clown with his foot.
  24. Rat - Stomped until being crushed by Art the Clown with his foot.

Appearances[]

Trivia[]

  • He was also played by Mike Giannelli outside of the Terrifier franchise.
  • According to David Howard Thornton, Art has little to no interest in sex, therefore, making him asexual.
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